Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Venango Steel, Inc.

Franklin, PA · ~23 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
25.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Venango Steel, Inc. runs at 772% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Venango Steel, Inc.: 25.5 TCR = 772% of Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Venango Steel, Inc. safety composite

Venango Steel, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 25.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Venango Steel, Inc.: 14.1 → 18.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 36.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Venango Steel, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.0 from 14.1 in 2016 to 18.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 36.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Franklin, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 25.5 · 772% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #52/52
  • PHOTO Hale Pet Door Nation…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hale Pet Door National LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Venango Steel, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Venango Steel, Inc. averages 25.5 TCR (772% of the Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Venango Steel, Inc. TCR series: 2016=14.1 · 2017=36.9 · 2018=34.1 · 2019=30.3 · 2020=26.7 · 2021=18.3 · 2022=18.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Venango Steel, Inc. falls in its industry

827 Ladders, portable metal, manuf establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 52 Ladders, portable metal, manuf employers in Pennsylvania.

Venango Steel, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 25.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Venango Steel, Inc.
Venango Steel, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 25.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Venango Steel, Inc. has fewer employees than the Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 18.1 0.0 2 2 0
2021 18.3 0.0 1 2 0
2020 26.7 0.0 1 4 0
2019 30.3 3.8 3 5 0
2018 34.1 7.6 5 4 0
2017 36.9 12.3 9 0 0
2016 14.1 9.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · PA · Franklin

827 Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 43 employers in Franklin, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Hale Pet Door National LLC 25.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duo Safety Ladder Corporation 23.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magni-Fab Southwest Co. 27.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AET 22.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mt. Parnell Fisheries Co. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hickory Run Energy, LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPV Fairview LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Corporate Office 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Visiting Nurses Association 896 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin Plant 2 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell Safety Products - Miller by Honeywell 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Joy Global Underground Plant 2 258 FTE
NAT-TCR Stillwater Health Care 25.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethesda Meadow 25.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Whiteface Lodge 25.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TRI-L Manufacturing, Inc 25.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Salem 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Argosy Console 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boca Aircraft Maintenance, LLC (OPF) 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hammett Steel LLC 23 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.